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2.16.1 Original Generator

  The default random number generator uses a lagged Fibonacci generator given by
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where z[i] is the i'th random number. This generator produces small integer-valued numbers. For larger integer, the small random integers are concatenated to produce larger integers. For floating-point numbers, the bits from this generator are used as the bits of the floating-point significand.



Raymond Toy
Mon Jul 14 09:11:27 EDT 1997